1st Edition
Marie-Antoinette’s Legacy The Politics of French Garden Patronage and Picturesque Design, 1775-1867
By Susan Taylor-Leduc
Copyright 2023
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
316 Pages
by
Routledge
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Challenging the established historiography that frames the French picturesque garden movement as an international style, this book contends that the French picturesque gardens from 1775 until 1867 functioned as liminal zones at the epicenter of court patronage systems. Four French consorts—queen Marie-Antoinette and empresses Joséphine Bonaparte, Marie-Louise and Eugénie—constructed their gardens... Read more
Acknowledgements, List of Illustrations, Introduction : Spatial Legacies, Prologue : Consorts & Fashionistas, I: A Gambling Queen: Marie-Antoinette's Gamescapes (1775-1789), II: Revolutionary Surprises (1789-1804), III: A Créole Empress: Joséphine at Malmaison (1799-1809), IV : The Imperial Picturesque: Napoléon, Joséphine and Marie-Louise (1810-14), V: Empress Eugénie and the Universal Exhibition of 1867, Epilogue, Index
Biography
Susan Taylor-Leduc earned both her masters and doctoral degrees from the University of Pennsylvania. Since 1992, she has worked as a teacher, curator and university administrator in Paris. She is currently affiliated with the Centre de Recherche du Château de Versailles.
